You have an interesting setup! Ain't it great to be able to do so much
stuff with older hardware?
>What I want to do is setup the DialD daemon (I avidly read the
>HowTo as if it was honey), and I'm wondering... could a 56K
>modem (external) work on the 486 running as a gateway?
Yes, it should work. There's nothing about a 56K modem per se that will
make it not work with a 486 running Linux ... unless it's a Winmodem, and
(as far as I know) no external modem is a Winmodem.
>I say external as from what I understand, internal modems suck
>CPU power, and then there is this evil I haven't had a chance to
>see yet, called Winmodems, which work only on Windows.
I don't think that just because a modem is internal, that that means it's
going to offload processing tasks to the computer's CPU. However, a lot of
internal modems (especially cheap ones) are Winmodems, and all Winmodems do
exactly that--suck CPU power, so to speak. Plus they just don't work with
Linux.
As an aside, I have always configured my modem on workstations using the
Redhat dial setup program in Gnome or the Kppp program in KDE. For server
installations, I found a great distribution called e-smith
(www.e-smith.net) that has scripts which do this fairly automatically.
(But I know there's documentation out there if you want to do it manually.)
Regards,
Jeff Nelson
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http://www.itp.innoved.org
